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When your teenage grandchild uses drugs and their parent is absent

My grandson is fifteen and started smoking weed and I found it in his backpack and I do not know if I should tell his mother who abandoned him or handle this myself.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The weight of solo parenting decisions feels impossible when you lack both authority and support from the biological parent.

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